Sage-Tips

Is Dear Moon legit?

The dearMoon project is a lunar tourism mission and art project conceived and financed by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. The passengers will be Maezawa, 8 civilians, and one or two crew members. The project was unveiled in September 2018 and the flight is expected to occur no earlier than 2023.

Is Elon Musk taking Dogecoin to the moon?

Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company SpaceX has announced that it will launch “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” in the first quarter of next year. Musk tweeted that company’s new satellite will be called Doge-1. Not just this, in an unprecedented move, the entire mission will be paid for in Dogecoin.

Will SpaceX get to the moon before NASA?

Nasa has chosen SpaceX to supply the lander that will take astronauts to the moon as part of the agency’s Artemis programme. A November 2020 report from Nasa said the agency would be “hard-pressed to land astronauts on the moon by the end of 2024”. …

Does SpaceX’s HLS demonstration proposal meet 2024 mission goals?

“Specifically, SpaceX’s proposal meets the 2024 demonstration mission goal values for HLS automated rendezvous, proximity operations, docking and undocking, and landing site vertical orientation,” Jurczyk wrote in the source selection statement.

Will NASA extend HLS contracts in 2021?

Jan. 27, 2021 – NASA notified its HLS contractors that a no-cost extension to each of their base period contracts will be required. The current 10-month base period contracts were set to conclude Feb. 28, 2021, and the agency plans to execute contract modifications to extend that period of performance through April 30, 2021.

Will SpaceX’s Starship become a crewed lunar lander?

NASA awarded SpaceX a $135 million contract Thursday to advance the design of the Starship transporter for potential use as a crewed lunar lander. The space agency also inked a $579 million agreement with Blue Origin and a $253 million deal with Dynetics for work on their own human-rated lunar lander concepts.

What does SpaceX’s $135 million Starship contract with NASA mean?

The $135 million contract is the most significant government investment in SpaceX’s Starship program to date. “SpaceX proposed the Starship,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “It’s obviously a very different solution set than any of the others. But it also, it could be absolutely game-changing. So we don’t want to discount it.